§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Dover on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Eightfold AI finishes 19 points clear of Dover inside the Sourcing cohort under rubric v1.0: 64 (D) against 45 (F). Eightfold AI leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Dover is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Eightfold AI leads is Human Oversight Design, Dover 58 to Eightfold AI 60. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Dover 34, Eightfold AI 75 — and at a 20% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Dover
Dover is an AI recruiting platform for startups offering a free applicant tracking system, candidate sourcing via a LinkedIn/Copilot browser extension, OpenAI/Anthropic-powered 0-100 applicant scoring, and a fractional-recruiter marketplace.
Vendor profile
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
§ The record
Dover and Eightfold AI are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144.
| Record | Dover | Eightfold AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dover 34 · Eightfold AI 75
8.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dover 52 · Eightfold AI 85
5.9 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dover 30 · Eightfold AI 45
2.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dover 50 · Eightfold AI 60
1.5 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dover 44 · Eightfold AI 50
0.7 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dover 58 · Eightfold AI 60
0.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -18.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -18.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dover minus Eightfold AI.
| Category | Weight | Dover | Eightfold AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 75 | -41 | -8.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 85 | -33 | -5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 50 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 64 (D) | -19 | -18.8 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Dover | Eightfold AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Dover has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Dover and Eightfold AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Dover, across 3 distinct source domains, and 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dover last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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